CO-REQUISITE:
MLIS and Dual students: LIBR 508
Core courses in the MLIS program can only be taken by students registered in the MLIS program.
GOAL: Serves as an introduction to issues in organization of information and documents including: analysis of intellectual and physical characteristics of documents; principles and practice in surrogate creation, including standards and selection of metadata elements; theory of classification, including semantic relationships and facet analysis; creation of controlled vocabularies; and display and arrangement. Provides the student with the analytical tools to assess how information is organized in an information system.
OBJECTIVES:
Upon completion of this course students will be able to:
- Describe the basic nature and characteristics of documents [1.2]*
- Describe the basic purposes and processes of authority control [1.1]*
- Explain core issues in the selection, arrangement, and formation of metadata elements in surrogates [1.2]*
- Analyze and classify subjects on a conceptual level [1.2, 2.1, 3.1]*
- Compare different types of classification schemes and controlled vocabularies [1.2, 2.1]*
- Describe the purposes of bibliographic control and resource discovery [1.2, 2.1]*
- Describe the general role of resource description and access in the information transfer process, and its particular role in information systems design and operation [1.1, 1.2]*
* Course objectives are stated in terms of student learning outcomes and reference the iSchool Statement on Graduate Competencies.
CONTENT:
- Purpose and foundations of cataloguing
- Description principles, practices and standards
- Common tools used in cataloguing
- Evaluation of catalogues and cataloguing work
- Subject heading work and classification work in the library catalogue
- MARC encoding of bibliographic descriptions